Only 23 years old, Thea Gilmore is already on her fifth album. She has appeared in acoustic and electric formats, and plunged into new-media territory with a bonus internet-only album to accompany Songs From the Gutter, which appeared as recently as the beginning of this year.

Avalanche is her first effort for the new Hungry Dog label, and it bears out those glowing press predictions that Gilmore is blazing her own path towards classic status as a songwriter.